Name: Great Sounds Great festival 2025
Start: 2025-09-06T05:00:00+12:00
Location: Multiple venues, Cuba St precinct, Wellington

Eyegum Music Collective presents GREAT SOUNDS GREAT, a multi-venue music and arts festival taking over Pōneke's Cuba Street precinct for one night only on Saturday 6 September 2025. Showcasing 40 of Aotearoa's best artists across 10 neighbouring venues, this is one big party you shouldn't miss.
Eyegum has worked hard to curate a programme that is sure to offer something for everyone, from first time gig-goers to seasoned live music obsessives. The eclectic lineup includes perennial indie maestros The Bats, capital hometown heroes The Phoenix Foundation, hip hop superstar JessB, troubadour-turned-party starter Anthonie Tonnon, captivating genre-bender Reb Fountain, the incredible local-by-way-of-Naarm Jen Cloher, plus a selection of up-and-coming artists handpicked from Eyegum's Free Wednesday weekly showcase series, and everything in between. There will also be plenty more to be announced soon.
Excitingly for 2025, we will be adding three new venues: St Peter's on Willis, Flying Nun Records and 13 Garrett Street (sponsored by Radio Active), as well as a travelling electronic stage curated by Tonic Collective. This means more artists and music to experience in a variety of special and unique spaces throughout the night.
Ticket holders will receive a wristband that will give them access to each of the participating venues throughout the event. Information on how to pick up wristbands will be provided to ticket holders closer to the time.
Tickets are on sale now at eyegum.co.nz/great-sounds-great
When: from 3pm Saturday 6 September 2025
Where: San Fran, Meow, Valhalla, Rogue & Vagabond, Bedlam & Squalor, Hotel Bristol (2 stages), St Peter's on Willis, Flying Nun Records, 13 Garrett St, and more
Who: The lineup will include Amira, Anthonie Tonnon, Asset, Baby Zionov, Bad Taste, BADTAB, Baeoli, Bathysphere, The Bats, By A Damn Sight, Cindy, Cruelly, DJ Kristen Stewart, Dropper, Eveline Breaker, Goya, Half/Angel, Hans Pucket, Iris Little, Jazmine Mary, Jen Cloher, JessB, JHL, Jim Nothing, Jordan Hamel, Leah Dodd, LEAO, Louisa Nicklin, Mystery Waitress, Nam Chucks, The Phoenix Foundation, Reb Fountain, Rebecca Hawkes, Robert Scott, Shayne P Carter (solo), Sig Wilder & Friends, Sofia Machray, Space Bats, Attack!, The Spectre Collective: live-scored cinema, $tacey Lee, Star Time, UMU.